. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. Photo by il. T. Ml- RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD In some States there is a bounty upon his head MEADOWLARK Sturnella magna magna (Linnceus) A. O. U. Number 501 .See Color Plate 75 Other Names.— Common Lark ; Old Field Lark; Field Lark; Marsh Quail; Medlark; Mudlark; Medlar; Crescent Stare. General Description.— Length, lo'A inches. Upper parts, brown streaked with black; under parts, black and yellow. Bill, long and slender; wings moderately short; tail, short, with the feathers pointed; legs and toes, Drawing by R. I. Brasher MEAX)OWLARK (about ; na
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. Photo by il. T. Ml- RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD In some States there is a bounty upon his head MEADOWLARK Sturnella magna magna (Linnceus) A. O. U. Number 501 .See Color Plate 75 Other Names.— Common Lark ; Old Field Lark; Field Lark; Marsh Quail; Medlark; Mudlark; Medlar; Crescent Stare. General Description.— Length, lo'A inches. Upper parts, brown streaked with black; under parts, black and yellow. Bill, long and slender; wings moderately short; tail, short, with the feathers pointed; legs and toes, Drawing by R. I. Brasher MEAX)OWLARK (about ; nat. sizei One of the comparatively few birds that walk Color.— Adult Male: Crown with a narrow center stripe of pale dull buffy, separating tz'.'o broad stripes of black, streaked narrowly with brown, these streaks sometimes obsolete on forehead; a broad stripe, lemon- yellow from nostril to above eye, the remaining portion over the eye dull bufFy-white; a narrow stripe behind eye of black; shoulders and the space between them, broadly black centrally edged and tipped with brown, but this passing on extreme edges and tip into buflfy- whitish or pale buff, producing distinct narrow streaks: rump and upper tail-coverts, buffy, broadly streaked with black; middle pair of tail-feathers black centrally, pale brownish-gray or grayish-brown laterally; three outermost tail-feathers extensively white, the outer- most (sometimes the one next to it also) almost entirely white; greater coverts light buffy grayish-brown edged with paler; secondaries similar in coloration to the greater coverts, the tertials usually with the black forming a large central irregular patch, but sometimes broken into regular and widely separated transverse lines or bars; primaries, dusky-grayish, the outermost broadly edged with white, the rest with outer webs broadly edged with light grayish-brown ; throat, breast, and abdomen, bright Icmon-ycUoiv; a broad crescent of black on chest, the extremities of whi
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